Packing case or box.



'Patented Aug. i9, |902.

Noz 707,|83.

c.l TmEBAuT.

PACKING CASE 0B BOX.

(Application led Mar. 26, 1902.)

(No Mudel #may JM g 8MM UNITED l STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

CAMILLE THIEBAUT, oE-sT. GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, FRANCE.'

PACKINGCASE R Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,183, dated August 19, 1902.

Application filed March 26, 1902. Serial No. 100,116. (No model.)

v i To all whom 15 may concern:

Beit known that I, CAMILLE THIEBAUT, a citizeniof the French Republic, and a resident of St. Germ ain-.en-Laye, Seinem-Oise, France,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing Gases or Boxes Made of Fluted 'or-Ribbed Material, of which the' following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in packing boxes or cases made of iiuted orribbed material. In articles ofthe kind. nowv used for packing the cardboard `is undulated byV sending it 'through' cylinders whereof the grooves and ribs are rounded at their bottoms and tops, respectively, ou leaving which the cardboard has exactly the'same sectional shape or profile as the cylinders. The yribs produced in thecardboard by this method (the bases of which are generally too far apart, while their tops are too round) are capable of oering but little resistance to vertical 1 pressure, and are'therefore unserviceable in practice. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows the cardboard vsheet folded. Figs. 2

` similar purposes hitherto, in addition to which it imparts to the packing a pleasing appearance of novelty and lightness, while at the same time it materially reduces the cost of its production. f l Y Toprevent the folds from becoming flattened or widened at their bases, I paste, cardboard, paper, or any thin fabric (indicated at b) on one or both sides, taking care that the paste is applied to the apexes of the'folds only, and I thus obtain a covered and ribbed compressible or extensiblesheet of cardboard applicable not only to the purposes for which similar cardboard has been used, but also to n the manufactureof bottle-envelopsin substitution for the usual straw envelops,anobject v for which none of the ribbed cardboards hitherto existing have been utilized, because they lacked the requiredelasticity toifit theshape of the bottles or to take the proper gradually-k tapering outline which such envelope should possess. y

I may add that in producing the improved ribs I employ a machine constructed on a well- Y known principle, which is already in use in plaiting Woven materials, but which has not yet been applied to the manufacture of ribbed .Y

cardboard, the only modiflcation'I-have made in that machine consisting in constructing all itsoperative parts in a stronger and more substantial shape than they have been made hitherto. suitable mechanism-for the same purpose lin I may, however, employ any other.

accordance with the suggestions of oxpef right angle tothe corrugations, and sheets of i thin flexible fabric joined to the apexes of the corrugations throughout the. length 'thereof on Vboth sides of the bodykand foldable between the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

CAMILLE THIEBAUT.

v Witnesses:

ADOLPHE STURM, EDWARD l". MAOLEAN. 

